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Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, 2002.
Examines the effect the collaborated writings of these two social theorists had on strategies of critique.
1,456 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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When Gilles Deleuze threw himself out of a Paris window in 1995, there ended a collaboration between him and psychologist Felix Guattari in literary criticism, philosophy and social theory whose influence on methods of critical thinking only seems to have grown and become more solid since then. The paper traces the joint writings of Guattari and Deleuze who were part of a circle of French intellectuals, that in the 1950s and afterward developed interdisciplinary critical approaches to literature, art, society and theory. The paper focuses on an analysis of the two's most famous work, "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia", which illustrates the effect their writing had on the social theory field.
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"Anti-Oedipus introduces a number of terms that are used throughout the Deleuze and Guattari canon--desire, territoriality, reterritorialization, deterritorialization, schizoanalysis, etc. In various ways, these terms seem meant to help organize critique. But in his preface to the book Foucault (xii) cautions against considering it "the new theoretical reference...in our age of dispersion and specialization." The fact of critique is far more important than theory, though if Deleuze and Guattari have an overarching concern, it is the "strategic adversary [of] fascism" (Foucault xiii). Thus the notion of desire for Deleuze and Guattari tends to refer to the whole range of anxieties, hopes, fears, and dislocations commonly associated with the mentally ill but in fact experienced by most people as day-to-day life, as well as by the social constructions, or social productions, in which they operate, with the constructions being more successful in negotiating rewards."
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Felix Mendelssohn, 2007.
A discussion on the life and musical achievements of Felix Mendelssohn.
1,738 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses the life of the early romantic composer, Felix Mendelssohn. The paper gives a short biography of his life, concluding with his death at age thirty eight. The paper discusses Mendelssohn's Jewish heritage. It then spends some time discussing his musical style, symphonies, piano and choral music. The paper concludes that Mendelssohn artfully combined the older classical style with newer romantic ideas regarding composition, and thereby gracefully bridged these dramatic musical changes.
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Short Biography
Jewish Heritage
Musical Style
Symphonies
Piano Music
Choral Music
Conclusion
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"This blending of Classical with Romantic effects is particularly noticeable in "Elijah," the story of a prophet from the Old Testament. The oratorio is full of intensely emotional and potentially disturbing scenes, such as the chorus fervently calling for Baal to accept their pagan offering and set it ablaze. Other sections reassure the despairing Elijah that God will not let him drift off into sleep because he needs Elijah to watch over Israel. In a music soothing and reassuring, the chorus tells the audience that Elijah will "slumber not, nor sleep." He will continue to prophesize and help them to the right path. At the end of the piece, God takes Elijah to Heaven in a fiery chariot. The accompanying music provides images of lightning, with the chorus providing "stormy rhythms and drawn-out cries.""
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The Rebirth of Felix Prosper, 2001.
A review of Sheila Watson's "The Double Hook".
2,020 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper anaylzes the spiritual rebirth and development of the main character, Felix Prosper, in the book "The Double Hook". It describes Felix's initial 'place' in life, and details his changes throught the course of events that are played out in the story.
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"In Sheila Watson?s The Double Hook, events and images conspire to entangle Felix Prosper in the town?s regeneration, taking him from his lonely contentment to the heart of the community and leading him to his own rebirth. Felix is a man content in the serenity of his life. He takes no action, contented to sit in the sun, fish, and play his fiddle (31). A succession of wrongful actions by James Potter force changes in Felix and the town. Felix is called on in response to these actions. Within Felix is the power of a spiritual leader. Throughout the novel Felix is forced to deal with the consequences of James? actions. Through his responses to others and himself, Felix finds the power within him to be a spiritual leader and is himself reborn along with the town."
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Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1992.
An analysis of the development and expression of the Supreme Court justice's philosophy of judicial restraint, including civil rights, New Deal issues, the 14th Amendment and progressivism vs. conservatism.
6,075 words (approx. 24.3 pages), 14 sources, $ 135.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the philosophy of judicial restraint of Justice Felix Frankfurter. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which Frankfurter's judicial philosophy emerged, and then to discuss the manner in which it developed and was applied during his career.
In order to appreciate how Frankfurter's philosophy of judicial self-restraint was enacted, one may profitably suggest a working definition of the concept as Frankfurter understood it. Kurland's examination and excerpting of Frankfurter's opinions suggests a frame of reference of the notion of judicial restraint that both describes the intrinsic features of the concept and positions such features with respect to Frankfurter's career.
The hallmark of that lonely crowd of jurists dedicated to "self-restraint," led by Holmes, Learned Hand, Brandeis, and..."
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Culture as Power, Ideology and Hegemony, 2008.
An analysis of the way in which the Frankfurt School viewed the sociology of culture and a discussion of Jurgen Habermas' "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society."
3,274 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 93.95
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This paper reviews the key texts of the Frankfurt School on the sociology of culture. It also discusses Jurgen Habermas' writings on the subject, particularly in "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society." Finally, it discusses the works of French critical theorists such as Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and examines the ways in which the Frankfurt School impacted their thought.
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"The French radical philosophers and sociologists built upon the foundation laid by the Frankfurt School in developing their own critique of culture. They extended the Frankfurt School theorists' attack on mass culture, liberal tolerance, and the decay of the public sphere to include such key areas a language, discourse, and the psyche. Thus, it can be said that the French theorists were much more interested in the ways in which culture played out on the semiotic or symbolic level. Debord's Society of the Spectacle articulated the fact that no true social interactions could take place, as all interactions are now mediated. Foucault introduced the notion of discourse as a tool for maintaining power-as-knowledge via specialization in the professional realm. In a similar vein, Bourdieu's analysis of language was meant to show us "our place" in the social sphere. He connected language with what he deemed "symbolic capital"; just as Foucault linked knowledge with currency, Bourdieu would assert that those in possession of "symbolic capital" were the same who possessed enough power to perform acts of "symbolic violence" against those with less symbolic capital. But the greatest destabilization would come from Deleuze and Guattari, who would reject the Freudian-Marxist axis upon which the Frankfurt School theory had developed altogether in favor of a whole new freedom that would be based on the libidinal flow of desire."
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Structural Philosophy, 2002.
A review of certain philosophies which can be categorized as post-modern or post-structural.
2,503 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper attempts to explain the structuralists' themes which dominated the philosophical thinking in the Twentieth Century and influenced many postmodernists and post-structuralists. As examples, the writer makes reference to the works of Ferdinand Saussaaure, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuz. Post-Structuralism and Postmodernists basically argue that "truth" is relative, it says that language is rooted in culture and its practice, thus it always favors that particular culture. Meaning, on the other hand, is not objective but depends on the experience of the individual.
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"In the late 1960s the structuralist?s movement, which was based in France, attempted to synthesize the ideas of Saussaaure, Freud and Marx. Thinkers like Claude Levi-Strauss and Lacan developed structuralism, which was against the existentialist doctrine, which claimed that man is what he makes himself. For these structuralists the individual is shaped by sociological, psychological and linguistic structures over which he /she has no control, but which could be understood and uncovered by using structuralists methods."
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?Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam?, 2002.
Discusses and analyzes this book by Prof. Gilles Kepel.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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The book "Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam" by Gilles Kepel argues the recent history of Islam and what has caused splinter Muslims to declare a jihad (holy war) against the United States. The paper shows that Kepel sees the September 11 attacks on the United States as compelling evidence the Muslim jihad is losing ground and spells out the reasons for his belief in this persuasive volume. The paper also explains the different sections in the book.
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"The second section "Decline," begins with the 1991 Gulf War, and leads the reader to the current state of affairs in the Middle East and beyond. This section includes an analysis of terrorist leader Osama bin Ladin and his motives for declaring a holy war against the western world. The author believes the Gulf War built a rift between the fundamentalists and more modern Muslim thinkers, and local support is now greatly divided, especially in the Middle Eastern countries that benefit so much from western influence, such as Kuwait. He believes the movement did indeed bring about cohesiveness and a bond for about ten years, but that bond is now broken, and there is much dissention in the Muslim world regarding extremists and their tremendously conservative view of the Koran and its wisdom. Many scholars employ a far different view of the Koran, and refute its translation as a means to political conflict and destruction."
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Policemen to the World, 2002.
This paper reviews Mary Kaldor?s ?New and Old Wars? and Fred Abrahams, Gilles Peress, and Eric Stover? A ?Village Destroyed?, which contend that war has changed and what the world needs now are policemen.
1,105 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 26 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses that changes in the perception of the structure of power in the world and a new era of cooperation instead of antagonism among world nations has created the need for policemen. The paper presents examples from the Bosnian War, the second Gulf War and the situation in Iraq (written prior to the war). The author presents the possible global political units to develop over the next 20 years.
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"Yet, such cooperation often involves antagonism. It did in the Gulf War, where the United States and certain Middle Eastern nations fought against Iraq. That coalition does not exist in the current crisis, but the United States is so far going ahead with some support from the United Nations, primarily in the form of weapons inspectors. The United States here is clearly acting as the world's policeman, using its power to force the world to inspect Iraq and test Iraq and perhaps eventually, to invade Iraq in order to remove the "criminal," Saddam Hussein. This is similar to what the United States did in Bosnia-Herzegovina, acting to remove a government leader and force a change in the way the nation was governed."
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Day Laborers of Contemporary Japan, 2002.
A review of the Japanese book by sociologist Tom Gill, "Men of Uncertainty; The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan".
955 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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This paper explores the socially marginal individuals in Japanese society, through the research by Tom Gill. It examines how Japanese day workers challenge our western assumption of the homogeneous Japanese culture and social structures. The paper illustrates Gill?s intensive study of ethnography of the day laborers, including factors such as their martial status, and age.
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"What occurs when individuals are excluded and socially ostracized from an essentially community-focused society? This is the central research question that drives the perspective of the book authored by Tom Gill, entitled Men of Uncertainty; The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. The book uses the specific example of day laborers in contemporary Japanese society to challenge some of the assumptions of homogeneity many Westerners bring to larger Japanese culture and social structures, as well as to simply highlight aspects of the difficulties individuals experience when they live at the margins of any particular culture. Gill?s relatively narrow social focus is thus developed, through historical study and fieldwork, to challenge a larger set of expectations often held by Westerners. The existence of day laborers, for example, challenges the notion that Japanese society is homogeneous yet inclusive. Both ordinary Japanese individuals who deny the existence of day laborers in their midst as well as Westerners observing Japan from afar often hold such expectations."
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"Precarious Dependencies", 2001.
This paper explores the ethnographic perspective of Lesley Gill?s "Precarious Dependencies".
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper analyzes Lesley Gill?s ethnographic work ?Precarious Dependencies? and examines the relationships between Aymara-speaking domestic servants and their upper-class women employers in La Paz from 1930 to the late 1980s. The paper provides insight into the nature of class, gender, and race in Bolivia and the oppression of women in general. It discusses the important use anthropology in our post-colonial world.
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"Lesley Gill?s ethnography Precarious Dependencies examines the relationships between Aymara-speaking domestic servants and their upper-class women employers in La Paz from 1930 to the late 1980s. While the work is in many ways ? like any good ethnography ? about the particular daily content of the lives of these women, it is also ? like any good ethnography ? about broader issues as well, and Gill clearly intends for us to read from her careful descriptions of what has happened in Bolivia a more general way to investigate how the general subordination of women can be understood in the context of class, race, and ethnic inequality."
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Academic Programs in California's Community Colleges, 2006.
This paper considers the questions raised by Andrew M. Gill and Duane E. Leigh in their evaluation of California's community colleges and how they design their research to address those questions.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews a study by Andrew M. Gill and Duane E. Leigh regarding the need for alternative models to use in evaluating California's community colleges. The arguments, data, methods, and findings are reviewed and critiqued. It is found that the research makes important points, but is incomplete. Specifically the data and analysis are strong, but the theoretical arguments are lacking.
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"In their study of California's community college programs, Andrew Gil and Duane Leigh (2004) address the curricular approaches and emphases of California's community colleges in order to determine how these colleges are performing in relation to their missions and whether discernible differences exist in those missions. They also consider whether there is a definable standard by which to judge successful performance of colleges in relation to state expectations."
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Post-WWII Tensions, 1995.
Discusses the impact of war on Germany and German soldiers in Felix Gilbert's history "The End of the European Era", Erich Maria Remarque's novel "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Jean Renoir's film "Grand Illusion".
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 55.95
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"Europe emerged from World War I with a different point of view than had existed before and with a new sense of the world as extending beyond the borders of Europe. This idea is mirrored in Felix Gilbert's book The End of the European Era, 1890 to the Present where he notes that Europe at the end of the nineteenth century was the center of world power. He finds that Europe was reshaped after that war and again after World War II, and a number of forces came together over that time to produce these changes, including the rise of America as a world power, the growth of the power of and perceived threat from the Soviet Union after the Russian Revolution, and the tensions after World War I that made a second war seem more and more certain as time passed, leading to World War II and the destruction of much of Europe. The tensions that developed after World War I are described in ..."
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The Search for Identity, 2001.
A description of changing social norms in early nineteenth century England through the examination of four novels - George Eliot's "Felix Holt", Benjamin Disraeli's "Sybil", Elizabeth Gaskell's "Mary Barton" and Charles Dickens' "Hard Times".
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at the changing society in industrial revolution, England and how these changes are recorded in these novels. These novels reflect changing attitudes towards women, working conditions, class structure and society as a whole. A new search for identity and independence was experienced by the main characters in these novels - a search that is certain to arise when the world one knows is changing.
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"The introduction of the Industrial Age in England had profound sociological and economic impact upon the populace during the nineteenth century: new taboos and new societal ethics were instituted and greatly affected the various social classes. Agrarian-raised Britons suddenly saw cities being built along the green hills, rivers, and vales of the countryside. One of the occurrences during this time was introduction of women and children into the labor force. Up until the early nineteenth century, men were the breadwinners; but as the economy expanded, the need for labor was great from all sectors of society. The real tragedy was the fact that England offered little or no laws to protect people from abusive practices. This economic expanse came at a great societal cost. These problems founds their way into may social or industrial novels, like George Eliot's Felix Holt, Benjamin Disraeli's Sybil, or Two Nations, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, and Charles Dickens' Hard Times. These books examined the lives of people who were greatly affected by the conditions within England. Many of these books all shared common themes or characters whose lifestyle was greatly challenged by conditions of the times."
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Advertising Cat Food, 1996.
Case study analysis comparing & contrasting the advertising approaches of two cat foods, FELIX & WHISKAS. Reviews the world-wide cat food market, discusses impact of advertising.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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"The pet food industry has grown significantly over the past 40 years in both Europe and the United Sales. There are an estimated 31.7 million cat owners in the U.S. with cat food sales totalling close to $3.4 billion. However this market is also becoming more competitive. In the U.S. cat ownership is not growing as fast as it once was and in both Europe and the U.S. consolidation of pet food producers is taking place. In addition, both areas of the world have seen a growing diversity of outlets for cat food products. In Europe, and particularly Britain, supermarket sales still account for a significant proportion of cat food sales but, as in the U.S., mass merchandisers and pet store chains offer strong competition. Furthermore in both Europe and the U.S. grocery chains have been..."
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Religion in 'La Bas', 2006.
This paper discusses the theme of religion within the novel 'La Bas' (Down There) by Joris Huysmans.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that the novel 'La Bas' by Joris Huysmans possesses the theme of religion and how experience truly teaches the tenants of belief in a higher power. By exploring historical serial killers, such as Gilles de Rais, one can realize the foundation of satanic beliefs that Durtal finds interesting in his curiosity for human nature. The writer shows that by actively making a choice to avoid dogmatic Christian values, Gilles de Rais has the courage and bravery to explore new avenues of belief systems in the characterization provided by Huysmans in 'La Bas'.
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"In this literary study, the theme of religion is analyzed within the classic novel La Bas (Down There) by Joris Huysmans. By revealing the religious tenants of Satanism and the Roman Catholic Church, the main character, Durtal, must come to terms with his own belief systems. By utilizing the them of religion, one can realize the depth of exploration that Durtal undergoes in his religious ideological transformation. In essence, the theme of religion will be analyzed within the novel La Bas by Joris Huysmans. The symbolism of Christianity in relation to the satanic visions that Durtal has within this novel are a main religious apparatus for his self-realization. In many ways, he doubts the validity of Christ, especially since he finds a reverence in the deviant nature of historical figures."
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